Nassau Community College : Anyone Applying for Spring 2011

If you're scheduled to go to the hospital 3 weeks into the program, what happens on the day you're scheduled within those weeks....do u attend regular class on campus with the same time scheduled for the hospital?

In 101 you'll have "class" on the clinical days on campus until it's time to go to the hospital. They do your orientation and infection control and all that stuff during those days.

Hi , I was wondering if anyone knows why the nursing classes are not all closed if all applicants were accepted? I was checking the class schedules and noticed many sections for 101 were still open?

Does anyone know any video modules or anything like that to help with nur101 skills like tranferring and moving patients etc. ?? Thanks!!

It going well so far, still a bit nervous about the tests and so forth.

I considered Nassau for my RN qualification, but after having taken nearly all of my prerequisites there, I have realized that it just isn't the same education that you may get elsewhere. There is a girl in my A&P II class that cannot even pronounced "cumulative" and she didn't even know what it meant. That's just one example of the quality of my classmates. I'm sure in a nursing program, the caliber is of much higher standards, but I have had professors give wrong answers and pronunciations in class at NCC, and the students have no idea what they're doing. It makes me scared for the future.

Mindylane - Go check out the NCLEX passing rates and you will see Nassau has the highest in Long Island. I am will be graduating from the program in May, and let it tell you I absolutely love it. Yes, it is hard and challenging but I have learned so much and can completely care for a patient now. The teachers are helpful, the material is very clear, and personally I would recommend it anyone. I have taken some of the pre-reqs in NCC also like Sociology and Child Dev, and I understand what you are saying about the teachers - but once you are in the Nursing Program you are looking at something completely different.

Well, hopefully it's true that the nursing program is different, because I am in awe that these people were able to get through any 101 class.

Nassau Community is far from being the best in the state, and it's considered decent, as best. There are only a few schools with a nursing program on Long Island.

Stony Brook, which is also on Long Island, has a higher pass rate than NCC: SBU - 92.5% - 111/120; NCC - 87.4% 118/135. Suffolk Community College also has a higher pass rate than NCC - 90.3% 167/185.

So that statement is far from being true, but I guess I could believe that nursing students are achieving more than the average NCC student, but I do not feel like I am learning as much as I could be elsewhere in my prerequisite classes.

Yesterday, a girl thought it was appropriate to ask the professor, a chiropractor, if her grandmother should have open heart surgery to replace blocked arteries in her heart. She went into detail (and by detail I mean every other word was "like" or "OHMYGOD") and wasted about ten minutes of class. Why the professor didn't shut her up, I'm not sure, but it was a ridiculous display of what students at Nassau are stereotyped to be. The four idiotic Princessy blonde girls in my class chatted for three hours to one another and the professor didn't even bat an eye. This is what I hate about the school and it frustrates me that I am paying money for this.

I should have rephrased - I live in Queens and compared to the other schools in Queens and Nassau County, Nassau is one of the best, Stonybrook and Suffolk would be too out of the way for me anyways. It sounds like you have a bunch of dummies in you class. Let me tell you, no joke, even though the Professors in the nursing program are nice and helpful they would not put up with that stuff in that class. Personally I love the program.

How long does the evening program take to complete?

Does anyone know any excellent books for formulating nursing care plans? I need to submit two care plans (interventions,rationales...) as a requirement and I need assistance formulating them. All suggestions would be helpful and highly appreciated! Thanks!

Hi all,

I am tentatively in the nursing program for a Spring start. I have all my prereqs and coreqs done. I am in medical micro now. I think i have one humanities elective to take, but I am not sure. I live in Nassau.

My dh did not get accepted. He has all his prereqs and most of his coreqs. He doesn't have sociology and humanities electives. His gpa is a slight lower than mine.

Hi all, for those of you who were tentatively accepted, were you later accepted. I was tentatively accepted to the Spring 2012 semester. I'm so nervous. Just want to know what to expect.